This week Ryan tries out several mic positions to find out which sounds best for recording guitars and Jon reviews his new Yamaha monitors.

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All the files used in Ryan’s guitar segment can be downloaded here.

The answers to the mic shootout in #39:

1 4060 -b
2 414 -e
3 Sputnik -a
4 Solaris -c
5 2035 -d
6 Nova -f

This week Ryan takes 12 different microphones of varying types and polar patterns to find out which sounds best for recording guitars and Jon brings us part II of the vocal microphone shootout this time with a male vocal.

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All the files used in Ryan’s guitar segment can be downloaded here.

All the files used in Jon’s vocal segment can be downloaded here.

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This week Jesse talks about the state of modern records. Ryan talks about ribbon mics.

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Before the Music Dies – Here’s a great scene from the film

Apex 205 Ribbon Mic

Apex 210 Ribbon Mic

This week Jon shares a shootout of 6 vocal condenser mics ranging in price from $120-1900. Ryan explains how to transfer recordings between different formats, from tapes to DAWs.

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Get the files for the mic shootout here:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1053122/vocal%20mic%20shootout.rar

The mics in the shootout:
* M-Audio Nova
* Audio Technica AT2035
* M-Audio Solaris
* M-Audio Sputnik
* AKG C 414 B-XL II
* Audio-Technica AT4060